Cassies Cause Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883736024
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Germantown, TN, USA
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,585
Expenses
$62,268
Assets
$54,500
Liabilities
$3,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kerri R Sumler (President)
  • Phil Johnson (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Kerri R Sumler (President)
  • Phil Johnson (Vice President)
  • Joshua S Tidwell (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

This foundation was formed after the passing of our dear friend wife and daughter Cassie Johnson Tidwell from breast cancer in March of 2022. This foundation has three specific goals: 1.We give local cancer patients and their families the opportunity spend some time away fromcancer and enjoy a retreat at Pickwick Lake in Tennessee. Through donations of individuals and local businesses we cover the all the expenses for patients to enjoy all that this beautiful place has to offer. 2. Our organization works with both Darryl Worley and West Cancer Centers to identify patients with financial needs and offerresources to those individuals while undergoing treatment. 3. We support other organizations that positively impact the life of cancer patients.

What it reported doing in 2025

To date our organization has hosted 17 families for weekend retreats. We have donated over $150,000 to over 100 families in Tennessee Mississippi and Alabama. We have provided over 2000 care items including breakfast lunches dinners groceries gas gift cards dining gift cards blankets socks hats and snacks for patients undergoing chemo therapy and radiation. We primarily serve patients receiving treatment at West Cancer Center in Corinth MS and patients at Darryl Worley Cancer Center in Savannah TN.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.1%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $68K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.